Showing posts with label Ethnic Cleansing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ethnic Cleansing. Show all posts
Friday, January 11, 2008
Satanic Verses ~ In Israel
"On the eve of U.S. President George W. Bush’s visit to Israel, a hardline member of Israel’s parliament is trying to drum up support for a new peace initiative - granting Jordanian passports to all Palestinians, dismantling the Palestinian Authority and abandoning any notions of an independent Palestinian state."
Sunday, December 30, 2007
Ethnic cleaning goes on and Israel wants you to accept it
“The Palestinians were driven out in 1947-48, even though the official historical record speaks about pressure from the Arab leaders who ostensibly persuaded them to flee. The idea of finding a refuge for the Jewish community, persecuted in Europe and annihilated by Nazism, clashed with a native population who was in a phase of redefining itself. A colonial project that practiced ethnic cleansing, tackling the demographic problem beforehand: the existence of 600 thousand Jews against one million Palestinians. In February 1948, before the Arabs decided to oppose it in a military manner, the Israelis had already expelled over 300 thousand native people.”
Monday, October 15, 2007
Senator Brownback Advocates Ethnic Cleansing of Palestinians
by Marissa Brostoff - Oct 10, 2007
A Republican presidential candidate is backing a controversial right-wing campaign to oppose the current peace process between Israelis and Palestinians.
Kansas Senator Sam Brownback announced on Wednesday that he was supporting “The Israeli Initiative: The Right Road to Peace,” a plan proposed Rabbi Binyamin Elon, chairman of Israel’s right-wing National Union Party.
“The combination of [Elon’s proposals] — and not creating a separate Palestinian state — is…a movement forward,” Brownback said in a prerecorded statement that was delivered at a press conference in Jerusalem on Wednesday.
Elon, who supports the transfer of Palestinians out of the West Bank and Gaza, and considers the Palestinian Authority a “danger to the region,” represents the far right of Israeli politics. By endorsing him, Brownback seems to be placing himself to the right of other Republican candidates on Israel policy.
Brownback’s endorsement kicked off a massive advertising campaign for Elon’s proposal, which will consist of 400 billboards in Israel, advertising banners on English-language Web sites, and the distribution of booklets to policy makers in several countries.
Brownback has long been a favorite of Evangelical Christians and has gone out of his way to express support for Israel. He addressed the Knesset in 2004 and has sponsored legislation in favor of moving the American embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.
“The Palestinian State solution has failed,” the Israeli Initiative Web site announces. Elon’s alternative plan stresses the sovereignty of Israel over disputed territories and the transfer of Palestinians out of those areas.
Elon proposes that Israel officially annex the West Bank, which he calls by its biblical names, Judea and Samaria. Palestinians who live there would be encouraged to relocate to Jordan, which would grant them citizenship (something Jordan has refused to do since 1988).
“This is the completion of the transfer of [the Palestinian] population that began in 1948,” said Elon spokesman Uri Bank.
Elon also argues that Israel should cease to recognize the Palestinian Authority, and that the P.A.’s arms should be confiscated. This view contrasts with that of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, whose government negotiates with the P.A.
A Republican presidential candidate is backing a controversial right-wing campaign to oppose the current peace process between Israelis and Palestinians.
Kansas Senator Sam Brownback announced on Wednesday that he was supporting “The Israeli Initiative: The Right Road to Peace,” a plan proposed Rabbi Binyamin Elon, chairman of Israel’s right-wing National Union Party.
“The combination of [Elon’s proposals] — and not creating a separate Palestinian state — is…a movement forward,” Brownback said in a prerecorded statement that was delivered at a press conference in Jerusalem on Wednesday.
Elon, who supports the transfer of Palestinians out of the West Bank and Gaza, and considers the Palestinian Authority a “danger to the region,” represents the far right of Israeli politics. By endorsing him, Brownback seems to be placing himself to the right of other Republican candidates on Israel policy.
Brownback’s endorsement kicked off a massive advertising campaign for Elon’s proposal, which will consist of 400 billboards in Israel, advertising banners on English-language Web sites, and the distribution of booklets to policy makers in several countries.
Brownback has long been a favorite of Evangelical Christians and has gone out of his way to express support for Israel. He addressed the Knesset in 2004 and has sponsored legislation in favor of moving the American embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.
“The Palestinian State solution has failed,” the Israeli Initiative Web site announces. Elon’s alternative plan stresses the sovereignty of Israel over disputed territories and the transfer of Palestinians out of those areas.
Elon proposes that Israel officially annex the West Bank, which he calls by its biblical names, Judea and Samaria. Palestinians who live there would be encouraged to relocate to Jordan, which would grant them citizenship (something Jordan has refused to do since 1988).
“This is the completion of the transfer of [the Palestinian] population that began in 1948,” said Elon spokesman Uri Bank.
Elon also argues that Israel should cease to recognize the Palestinian Authority, and that the P.A.’s arms should be confiscated. This view contrasts with that of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, whose government negotiates with the P.A.
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